Painter, illustrator and teacher Kerrin Parkinson stops to answer a passerby’s question while transforming an ordinary utility box into a work of art in Portland’s Congress Square on Tuesday. Parkinson said she doesn’t mind the interruptions but she’d be done twice as fast without them. Troy R. Bennett | BDN
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Kerrin Parkinson paints the city’s skyline — complete withe the Veterans Memorial Bridge’s spikes — on a utility box in Portland’s Congress Square on Tuesday. Parkinson is one of five artists chosen by the Public Art Committee to spruce up the formerly plain, black structures. Troy R. Bennett | BDN
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The tools of Kerrin Parkinson’s trade sit on a table in Portland’s Congress Square on Tuesday as she worked on transforming a utility box into a work of art. Parkinson is one of five artists chosen to paint the boxes throughout the city. Troy R. Bennett | BDN
Painter, illustrator and teacher Kerrin Parkinson is one of five artists chosen by Portland’s Public Art Committee to spruce up the plain, black utility boxes dotting the city. Today, Parkinson touched up her creation in Congress Square while while being peppered with questions from people passing by.
She took each interruption in stride, saying making art in public — for the public — was like a musician playing in front of an audience. Then, she bent back over her brush for about a minute-and-a-half, until the next question came.